The episode in question was “Two Ounces of Tin,” first airing on Feb. 19, 1962. Sammy Davis Jr. played Top Corey, a “young gunman with a killer’s reputation.” When confronting Marshal Micah Torrence ...

The mood in hell was light. All smiles and hugs, Sammy Davis Jr. was in high spirits as he arrived at Paramount Studios in the fall of 1972 to film Poor Devil, a new NBC comedy set in the ...

“We became conspirators, drawn together by the single thing we had in common: defiance,” Davis’s friend and biographer, Boyar, quoted the entertainer as saying in the 2000 book Sammy.

The five-concert schedule begins Oct. 9 at Stern Auditorium in Carnegie Hall with a tribute to Sammy Davis Jr. and Sam Cooke, performed by Wayne Brady, the comedian and television host.

Sammy Davis Jr., whose ascension in Hollywood helped break racial barriers in the entertainment industry, had been hired for the leading role in “Golden Boy,” a musical reimagining of Clifford ...

The five-concert schedule begins Oct. 9 at Stern Auditorium in Carnegie Hall with a tribute to Sammy Davis Jr. and Sam Cooke, performed by Wayne Brady, the comedian and television host.